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From: WYLBB@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Michael Linn)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Poster (Final Verdict)
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Date: 29 Aug 88 15:43:19 GMT
Organization: The City University of New York - New York, NY
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A while ago, I responded to the following:

>   Hi. I am trying to trace a certain poster that I have hanging on
>my wall. It's a night time shot of a Shuttle on the launch pad. I
>guess u would call it a frontal shot (as opposed to side shots or
>top down views). The only noticeable oddity is the WHITE fuel tank,
>the shot is tilted so i can see more of the rightside of the shuttle
>(i can read the NASA and USA markings), but the left side is obscured.
>   Other clues: writing on the poster
>     Verkerke Poster/6402/Space Shuttle/Photo : Ken Sherman - Bruce
>Coleman/Verkerke Copyright & Licensing GMBM 1983/..../Printed in the
>Netherlands.
>   If anyone can tell me what shuttle flight this is, could you please
>drop a note to me?

I speculated that, without the poster in front of me, it was either
the Enterprise or one of the first two flights of Columbia
(STS-1 or STS-2).

This weekend, I saw a poster that fit the above description,
including the printing along the left edge of the poster, namely:
>     Verkerke Poster/6402/Space Shuttle/Photo : Ken Sherman - Bruce
>Coleman/Verkerke Copyright & Licensing GMBM 1983/..../Printed in the
>Netherlands.

It's not the Enterprise. It's definitely one of the first two
flights of Columbia (STS-1 or STS-2).